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The Battling Memoirs of The New Yorker
[ad_1] In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. Before doing so, however, he sat around with the boys in the bar and thrashed out what exactly he...
Why I Can’t Quit the New York Post
[ad_1] Worse, I’m not sure I want to. If I’m away and something big happens, I usually ask a friend if he can stop by a newsstand so I don’t...
Keith McNally’s Guide to Making a Scene
[ad_1] McNally seemed to enjoy occupying a place in New York’s cultural landscape; he describes McInerney asking for permission to use the restaurant’s image and giving him a manuscript to...
“The Rehearsal” Finally Achieves Liftoff
[ad_1] The second season of “The Rehearsal” is instantly better than the first because it’s about something. In the show’s previous season, Nathan Fielder developed and applied his methodology—the so-called...
Bill Burr Does Not Want to Talk About Politics
[ad_1] Journalism is not standup comedy. We’re not in the same world.So what do you think your responsibility is?My responsibility is to make you laugh. And, if I’m being malicious,...
My Brain Finally Broke
[ad_1] I feel a troubling kind of opacity in my brain lately—as if reality were becoming illegible, as if language were a vessel with holes in the bottom and meaning...
Disco Balls and Roller Skates, at Xanadu
[ad_1] In the lushly pleasurable Bobby Darin bio-musical “Just in Time,” by Warren Leight and Isaac Oliver, the director Alex Timbers ensconces his sweet-voiced star Jonathan Groff in a gleaming...
A Joyfully Chaotic Tribute to Pavement in “Pavements”
[ad_1] Rock documentaries and bio-pics have been parodied for nearly as long as they have existed, but there’s a reason for their ingrained absurdity that’s even weightier than fan service:...
Rumaan Alam and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Female Protagonist
[ad_1] The writer Rumaan Alam has noticed that readers, especially as of late, can be quick to dismiss novels that have characters they find unpleasant. But “when a character on...
The Miscalculations of COVID School Closures
[ad_1] On June 26, 2020, three months after the coronavirus pandemic had seized the United States, the American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents about sixty-seven thousand pediatric physicians, issued guidance...
